Dung, L. D.; Tsukagoshi, A. (2018). Three new species of the genera Loxoconcha and Xestoleberis (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida) from central and southern Vietnam. Zootaxa. 4472(1): 111.
Three new species of the genera Loxoconcha and Xestoleberis (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida) from central and southern Vietnam
Zootaxa
4472(1): 111
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The present study reports three new species of Ostracoda, Loxoconcha damensis sp. nov., Xestoleberis vietnamensis sp.
nov. and X. munensis sp. nov., from Phu Quoc Island, southwest Vietnam and Nha Trang Bay, central Vietnam. These
species inhabit the coral reefs around isolated islands and can be easily distinguished from other known species based on
their morphological differences, mainly in the male copulatory organ. Loxoconcha damensis sp. nov. belongs to Loxoconcha
Group A, based on the distributional pattern of their pore system below the eye tubercle. Similarly, based on a combination
of morphological types of pore systems, the two new Xestoleberis species belong to Xestoleberis Group A,
because these species have two types of pore systems, i.e., sieve-type and lip-type. To the best of our knowledge, this study
is the first report on Xestoleberididae and the second on Loxoconchidae from the Recent of Vietnam.